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Officials at Southern University of Illinois Edwardsville and Webster University are working with international students who have had their visas revoked to help them finish their degrees in their home countries.

Last month, campus leaders proposed getting rid of the physics major and minor, which was met with skepticism from some faculty and staff.

The Wedge Innovation Center will host space for business startups, a venture capital firm and various Southern Illinois University Edwardsville centers. It’s the first completed project from AltonWorks, a real estate company spearheading numerous economic development projects in town.

The proposal would allow all students currently declared as a physics major or minor an opportunity to complete the program. It would not eliminate all physics courses.

The Cougars used stingy defense and 20 points from Collinsville native Ray’Sean Taylor to win the Ohio Valley championship 69-48 over Southeast Missouri State.

Along with an unspecified number of job cuts and changes to academic programs, the plan includes early retirement buyouts that will start this spring to balance the budget by 2027.

A Southern Illinois University Edwardsville professor and student have been studying the effects of the buoys placed by Texas in July 2023 — finding they’ve altered the flow of the river on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Dubbed the “Yellowhammer Connector,” the new trail and bicycle and pedestrian bridge will connect campus to Madison County’s central bike trail. The name for the new trail comes from an early 20th-century streetcar corridor that ran near the new trail.

At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, negotiations are ongoing between campus leadership and the labor union that represents the university's clerical workers. A recent report found Illinois' public university employees were paid 21% less than state agency workers in similar jobs.

Seven student groups at St. Louis-area universities are calling for their leaders to sever ties with Boeing because of the weapons manufacturer’s connections to Israel.